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Fiction
When I Was Five I Killed Myself
Howard Buten
This is eight-year-old Burton Rembrant's story as written in pencil on the walls of the Quiet Room at a home for disturbed children.
What the Deaf-Mute Heard
G. D. Gearino
The narrator is Sammy Ayers, 62, who was abandoned by his mother at the age of 10 in a bus station in Georgia. Such was his fear he could not speak and people assumed he was deaf and dumb,which allowed him to listen in on conversations, people not being afraid to speak freely in front of a deaf-mute.
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Charly realizes that he's not that bright. As part of an experiment, he allows doctors to operate on his brain. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, as it has done for the lab mouse, Algernon. Charly keeps a daily diary of what is happening to him.
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
The twitching hero--he suffers from Tourette's syndrome--is one of four misfits who were rescued from an orphanage by a man who gave them jobs in his detective agency. Now the man has been killed and the boys intend to get the killer.
A Corner of the Universe
Ann M. Martin
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
The Pleasure of My Company
Steve Martin
Daniel Pecan Cambridge, 30, 35, 38, or 27, depending on how he feels that day, is a young man whose life is rich and full, provided he never leaves his apartment. After all, outside there are 8-inch-high curbs and there's always the horrible chance he might see a gas station attendant wearing a blue hat.
The Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
Written with love and expertise by the mother of an autistic teenager, "The Speed of Dark" is a riveting exploration into the mind of an autistic man as he struggles with the question of whether he should risk a medical procedure that could make him "normal."
Icy Sparks
Gwyn Hyman Rubio
At the age of 10, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her expulsion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.
Stuck in Neutral
Terry Trueman
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Other Authors who fashion new stories with Sherlock Holmes:
The Final Solution
Michael Chabon
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
(Mary Russell series)
Laurie R. King
The Great Game
(Professor Moriarity series)
Michael Kurland
Another Scandal in Bohemia
(Irene Adler series)
Carole Nelson Douglas
The Italian Secretary
Caleb Carr
A Slight Trick of the Mind
Mitch Cullin
Holmes on the Range
Steve Hockensmith
The Seven-Percent Solution
Nicholas Meyer
Nonfiction
Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My Life With Autism
TempleGrandin
Grandin describes how her perception of the world was shaped by autism, including accounts of both the struggles of her early years and her fascinating gifts of visual thinking and the ability to empathize with animals.
The Ride Together: A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Family
Judy Karasik
Half memoir, half graphic novel, this ambitious work by a brother and sister is a moving portrait of one family's history, a wonder of innovative storytelling, and a window into the world of living with autism.
A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
Beth Kephart
For Kephart's son, the diagnosis was "pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified" - a broad spectrum of difficulties, including autistic features. As the author discovers, all that label really means is that their son Jeremy is "different in a million wonderful ways, and also different in ways that need our help".
Finding Ben: A Mother's Journey Through the Maze of Asperger's
Barbara LaSalle
For the first few years of his life, Ben amazed his mother with his brilliance and creativity, speaking in full sentences before age one and reading competently by age two. Yet lurking beneath this boy genius's amazing abilities were a crippling social aloofness and a fear of change.
An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks
Profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident ... and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her understanding of animal behavior.
Riding the Bus with My Sister
Rachel Simon
Simon's sister, Beth, is a woman with mental retardation who lives with spirit and joy. She spends most of her days riding the city buses. One day she asks her sister, Rachel, to accompany her for a year. This is an account of that year and what Rachel learns from her sister, the bus drivers and passengers, as well as a memoir of the sisters' difficult childhood.